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Facebook's Threads is so depressing (jogblog.substack.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Such angst and yet no mention of Mastodon as a FOSS alternative.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Mastodon (and other FOSS ActivityPub platforms) aren’t just great because they are open source, they are great because they are distributed.

    The Internet was designed to be resilient, famously designed to withstand (a nuclear) attack. The World Wide Web started to make it monolithic and Web 2.0 resulted in a more centrally controlled infrastructure.

    When an attack comes from above (like Musk, /u/spez, Meta and Google) one (group of) individual(s) can take our whole swathes of content in one policy change.

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